General Information

Websites
Garden Talk with Larry Meiller on Wisconsin Public Radio
Madison Area Planting Time Chart
Urban Agricultural Manual  
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Videos
UW Extension YouTube Channel   Search for Gardening
Preparing for the Growing Season  

Books
The American Horticultural Society's A to Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, Second Edition (Christopher Brickell)
The Beginner's Guide to Growing Heirloom Vegetables: The 100 Easiest-to-Grow, Tastiest Vegetables for Your Garden (Marie Iannotti)
From the Ground Up: A Guide to Basic Organic Vegetable, Flower, and Herb Gardening for New Gardeners ​
Greenhouse Gardener's Companion Revised and Expanded: Growing Food and Flowers in Your Greenhouse or Sunspace (Shane Smith)
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners, Second Edition (Suzanne Ashworth, Photography by David Cavagnaro)
The Wisconsin Garden Guide (Jerry Minnich)
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General 

1. Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening (Louise Riotte)
2. Food and Gardening Activities for Kid
3. ​Phenology  (relationship between the life cycle of plants and animals and the environment)
4. ​​The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Michael Pollan)
5. The Drunken Botanist (Amy Stewart)
6. Youth Gardening 
7. Glossary of Botanical Terms

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Harvest, Post-harvest Physiology, and Recipes

1. Harvesting Vegetables from the Home Garden
2. Harvest and Post-Harvest Handling
3. Recipes from Our Community 
4. Roxbury Farm Harvest Manual
5. Storing Fruit and Vegetables from the Home Garden

Land and Pollinator Conservation

1. A Gardener's Primer to Mycorrhizae: Understanding How They Work and Learning How to Protect Them
2. The Nature Conservancy
3. The Prairie Enthusiasts
4. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
5. Wisconsin Honey Producers Association
6. Wisconsin State Park System​

Useful Tools

1. Insect Diagnostic Lab, Department of Entomology | UW-Madison
2. Lawn and Garden Soil Samples, UW Soil and Forage Lab | UW-Madison
3. Natural Resources Conservation Service, Wisconsin Portal
4. Nematode Diagnostic Lab, Department of Plant Pathology | UW-Madison​
5. Online Virtual Flora of Wisconsin, Department of Botany | UW-Madison
6. Phenology in the Garden
7. Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic, Department of Plant Pathology | UW-Madison
8. The Wisconsin Gardener​ | Wisconsin Public Television
9. Turfgrass Diagnostic Lab | UW-Madison​
10. Vegetable Crop Update | UW Vegetable Pathology Program
11. Web Soil Survey | United States Department of Agriculture
12. Wisconsin Fruit News | UW Fruit Program
13. Wisconsin State Climatology Office, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences | UW-Madison​

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